J vs. KBR, FLR, STRL, ROAD, GVA, GLDD, ORN, SLND, SHIM, and MRVL
Should you be buying Jacobs Solutions stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Jacobs Solutions include KBR (KBR), Fluor (FLR), Sterling Infrastructure (STRL), Construction Partners (ROAD), Granite Construction (GVA), Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (GLDD), Orion Group (ORN), Southland (SLND), Shimmick (SHIM), and Marvell Technology (MRVL).
Jacobs Solutions (NYSE:J) and KBR (NYSE:KBR) are both business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, risk, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and valuation.
Jacobs Solutions presently has a consensus price target of $156.82, suggesting a potential upside of 12.54%. KBR has a consensus price target of $76.00, suggesting a potential upside of 15.75%. Given KBR's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe KBR is more favorable than Jacobs Solutions.
Jacobs Solutions has a net margin of 3.83% compared to KBR's net margin of -3.65%. KBR's return on equity of 26.14% beat Jacobs Solutions' return on equity.
KBR received 465 more outperform votes than Jacobs Solutions when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 73.58% of users gave Jacobs Solutions an outperform vote while only 66.30% of users gave KBR an outperform vote.
Jacobs Solutions pays an annual dividend of $1.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. KBR pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Jacobs Solutions pays out 22.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. KBR pays out -31.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. KBR is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
85.7% of Jacobs Solutions shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.0% of KBR shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Jacobs Solutions shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of KBR shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Jacobs Solutions has a beta of 0.74, indicating that its stock price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, KBR has a beta of 0.92, indicating that its stock price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Jacobs Solutions has higher revenue and earnings than KBR. KBR is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Jacobs Solutions, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Jacobs Solutions had 11 more articles in the media than KBR. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Jacobs Solutions and 3 mentions for KBR. Jacobs Solutions' average media sentiment score of 0.60 beat KBR's score of 0.37 indicating that Jacobs Solutions is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
KBR beats Jacobs Solutions on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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